Senior Manager, Planning Scheduling and Lean

• Provides strategic leadership and oversight to a team of planning, scheduling, and lean practice professionals supporting operational districts across the organization.
• Sets the vision and direction for planning and scheduling excellence, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, operational directives, and industry best practices.
• Oversees the delivery of technical training programs and coaching initiatives, ensuring consistent application of planning and scheduling principles across all project teams.
• Guides the team in supporting challenged projects through scheduling audits, recovery planning, and performance optimization.
• Leads the development and implementation of change management strategies related to schedule impacts, including time impact analysis and contractual compliance.
• Champions the integration of schedule risk analysis into project planning, ensuring teams are equipped to identify and mitigate potential risks.
• Ensures the development and maintenance of high-quality project schedules, providing strategic oversight and support to operational districts.
• Directs the adoption and optimization of scheduling tools such as P6 EPPM and Deltek Acumen, including upgrade evaluations, testing, and documentation standards.
• Mentors and empowers district champions in planning, scheduling, and lean practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Drives the evolution of planning and scheduling directives, business guides, and best practices, ensuring effective communication and implementation across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of progressive scheduling experience in construction or related field preferred, with 4 years of experience in a supervisory role an asset.
• Postsecondary degree or diploma in construction management, engineering or a related discipline preferred.
• Ability to manage/facilitate planning and scheduling for a project valued at or above $500M.
• Expert knowledge of construction specifications, contract documents, building materials, methods and procedures, and the ability to read and understand construction drawings, specifications, contracts and proposal documents.
• Extensive prior experience with project management and field construction operations and how a project is constructed, including logical sequencing of work through all phases of the project from pursuit to project closeout.
• Ability to identify and mitigate risk, opportunities with appropriate solutions.
• Advanced working knowledge of Primavera P6 and Deltek Acumen Fuse with knowledge of schedule analysis methodology.
• Experience using schedule delay analysis methods and highly skilled in communicating results.
• Travel expectations:
  Up to 50% throughout North America.